Books Are Not Life But Then What Is?

Books Are Not Life, But Then What Is? demonstrates how much Marvin Mudrick loved life and celebrated the dignity of life in literature.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mudrick, Marvin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Great Barrington, MA : Berkshire Publishing Group, 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. People: just like you and me
  • The Emperor of China
  • Su cosa mi cosa; or, Busy busy busy
  • The offending member
  • The entertainer
  • I don't care what mama don't allow
  • Pushkin in English
  • The ugly duck
  • Father knows best
  • Portnoy's bachelor uncle
  • Aged eagles and dirty old men
  • Issues and answers: or, If you've tried it don't knock it
  • The smell of martality
  • II. Scholars: the soft recesses of uneasy minds
  • The blind men and the elephant
  • Stone-deaf theologians
  • III. Operators: if they don't like it here why don't they go back where they came from?
  • Adorable ideas and absent plenitudes
  • Mad dogs and anglo shrinks
  • A thrust in the hand is worth two in the bush
  • IV. Books in bunches: the fox and the grapes
  • Old pros with news from nowhere
  • Fiction and truth
  • V. Four ways of looking: books are not life but then what is?
  • Chamber of horrors
  • Good and proper (I)
  • Good and proper (II)
  • Mrs. Harris and the hend of all things.